So this morning was a bit of a bum start; my first excuse is that the snooze button is the worst invention ever made! Ok I don’t have any more excuses. I felt so tired this morning and I missed my cardio……. Sodding snooze button!

So today I stopped taking the Hydroxycut Hardcore but my heart is still racing. I woke up at 4am to do my cardio and some school work but I still had that chest pain and it felt like my heart was missing some beats or out of rhythm. I took it easy and finished some lesson planning.

I took my son to the doctor today for a check-up (I thought, I’m the one in need of a doctor).

We (Susan and I) have a really good doctor for Daniel (my son) despite being here in Indonesia. As for my and my chest pains, there is no way I’m going to see a doctor here. They’ll say “Here comes the bule (foreigner), lets add pajak bule (foreigner’s tax).” Then I’ll go home with about 10 different kinds of medication and only about 2 of them will work.

I am thinking once I have been off the Hydroxycut for a few days then I’ll be back to normal, I hope.

I went for a 2 hour sleep, enjoying my day with my son while Susan is off to get her driver’s license.

Well I’ll go now, and update my food log later tonight before I sign off. I have a funny story to tell you about a cheese accident.

I am an English teacher in Indonesia (please don’t kill me for the mistakes I make on this blog), I see myself as very energetic in the classroom which tires me out. And of course the heat over here saps the energy out of you, and the air con in the classrooms came out of the ark.

Ok those are my excuses for looking for a boost to start my workout. So I took off to the mall and popped into *** and picked up some (expensive) pills; Hydroxycut Hardcore. The first day I could feel them, they are very strong. It helped give me that boost to start.

I came through the week being able to do my workouts in the morning @ 4am. I chose this time so I don’t eat into my family time in the evenings and also when I come home from school I am usually quite tired.

But by today I had to call it quite on these pills as they gave me; mood-swings, put up my blood pressure, the shakes, nausea and I found it hard to concentrate on anything.

And today it feels like my heart is going to explode; I am having stabbing chest pains (scary stuff). So as of tomorrow I am going to put these off the shelf and try the natural approach.

Now I am not saying they don’t work, they do but the side affects are just to strong.

Obliques Chrunch – x12 (for the muscles at the sides, that I never knew I had; ouch!)

Back Extension – x12 (lower back)

Squat – x12 (Glutes)

Pile Squat – x12 (Hamstrings)

Fly – x12 (Chest – man boob extermination)

Bench press – x12 (Chest – ” – )

Dumbbell Rows – x12 (Back)

Overhead Shoulder Press – x12 (surprisingly the shoulders)

Bicep Curl – x12 (for sexy arms)

Tricep Kickback – x12 (Triceps)

That is my strength training that I do three times a week.

Tuesday, Thursday & Saturday – Cardiovascular

15 minute cycle

NOTESMy blood pressure is quite high at the moment so I am building up slowly. For my strength training next week I want to do the circuit three times and the cardio I want to build up to 30 minutes. Sunday is my day off.